Doris Blackburn, Australian activist and politician (died 1970)

Doris Blackburn

Australian political activist, legislator (1889–1970)

Doris Amelia Blackburn was an Australian social reformer and politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1949, the second woman after Enid Lyons to do so. Blackburn was a prominent socialist and originally a member of the Labor Party. She was married to…